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berries and great wavy ferns covered with
pearly water-drops! But Karsten and I had
something else to do, I can assure you, tlian to
look at all this beauty. For to-day we were
go-ing to make Niagara Falls! We had water
enough.
O mv! how Karsten and I slaved that
mom-ing! We made an entirely new watercourse so
that we had ever so much more water for the
pond. And then the pond itself had to be made
better and bigger. It was ready to overflow
any minute,—it was so full. Karsten slipped
in twice and got wet way above his knees. My!
how we laughed!
It seemed as if there was always a little tuft
of moss to stuff in or a stone to lay in better
position, in order to make the pond really tight
and firm; but at last we had it finished.
But now there was no one at hand, not a
single person, to admire the glorious sight of the
waterfall, and I didn’t want to have all our
hard work go for nothing. Karsten wanted to
let the waterfall loose anywav, but I wouldn’t
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